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Tournament of Stars – Show the World You’ve got Game!

Tournament of Stars – Shoot Hoops with the Stars and Show the World You’ve got Game!

TORONTO, March 13, 2018 /CNW/ – Think you can play with the pros? Register a team and join the 2nd Annual Tournament of Stars, a celebrity basketball tournament in support of West Park Healthcare Centre. From March 23rd to March 24th, 2018, you and your team will have the chance to play ball with NBA legends all for a great cause.

Presented by Sun Life Financial, the Tournament of Stars will team NBA alumni and hoop-loving celebrities with West Park supporters at the University of Toronto’s (U of T) Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport. This exciting, fun-filled tournament will help promote healthy, active living on and off the courts.

Proceeds from the tournament will support the life-changing work done every day at West Park, a Toronto rehabilitation hospital that helps people with serious injury and illness – including diabetes, stroke, lung disease and amputation – get back to their lives.

More than 50 per cent of West Park’s amputee patients have lost a limb due to complications from diabetes, a number that is expected to rise as the population ages. West Park’s renowned amputee rehabilitation program gets patients out of their wheelchairs and active again with the help of a prosthetic limb.

“One of the best ways to help manage diabetes and its related complications is through a healthy and active lifestyle,” said Paul Joliat, Assistant Vice-President, Philanthropy and Sponsorships, Sun Life Financial. “By teaming up with West Park to sponsor the Tournament of Stars, we get to support those living with this disease while having fun on the basketball court.”

In November 2012, Sun Life Financial announced a philanthropic focus on diabetes and since then has committed over $22 million to programs that support diabetes awareness, prevention, care and research.

“We know the importance of encouraging a healthy, active lifestyle among our patients, helping those with diabetes and other chronic conditions to better manage their health and live life to the fullest,” said Joanne Cole, CEO of West Park Foundation. “We are delighted that Sun Life Financial has teamed up with us to present Tournament of Stars.”

The event gets underway the evening of Friday, March 23rd with the Celebrity Draft Party at Maison Mercer Nightclub (15 Mercer Street, Toronto), during which teams will have the chance to draft their celebrity teammate and plan their game strategy. The more money a team raises, the higher they will place in the draft.

Tip-off is at U of T’s Goldring Centre (100 Devonshire Place) at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 24th. In addition to the round-robin tournament, the day includes a Slam Dunk Exhibition, 3-point competition and a Celebrity All-Star Game between the NBA alumni and celebrities, and the top fundraisers.

“The tournament will be a family-friendly day of fun and excitement, and all for a great cause,” said Daniel Simunac, a member of the hospital board, Managing Director at Raymond James and Organizing Chair of the tournament. Raymond James is a Platinum Sponsor of Tournament of Stars.

“West Park plays a critical role in our healthcare system, helping people overcome enormous health challenges to reclaim their lives,” said Simunac.

If you think you can play with the pros, visit westparktournamentofstars.ca to register a team and prepare to draft your celebrity teammate. Tickets to watch the tournament are $25 each and can be purchased through the website.

West Park Healthcare Centre helps patients get their lives back by providing specialized rehabilitative and complex care after a life‐altering illness or injury such as lung disease, amputation, stroke, and traumatic musculoskeletal injuries. West Park is building a new hospital and transforming its 27-acre site into an integrated campus of care, enabling the hospital to evolve its rehabilitative programs to meet Ontario’s future health care needs. West Park Foundation has embarked on the ambitious $80 million Get Your Life Back Campaign to support construction of the new hospital and help transform West Park into a world-class centre of rehabilitative care.